Tabs
Difficulty: Novice
Sinner in the Sea by Calexico
Submitted by aliz
Chords : 
E minorEm | 
A minorAm | 
G+G | 
C majorC | 
Bm7Bm7 |
e 7 | 5 | 3 or 3 | 0 | 2 or 2 |
BB 8 | 5 | 0 3 | 1 | 0 3 |
G+G 9 | 5 | 0 4 | 0 | 2 2 |
D MajorD 9 | 7 | 0 5 | 2 | 0 4 |
A augmentedA 7 | 7 | 2 5 | 3 | 2 2 |
E MajorE 7 | 5 | 3 3 | 3 | 2 2 |
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Intro x2 (first palm muted)
|E minorEm |E minorEm |E minorEm |E minorEm A minorAm |
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------1p0|
|------------------------------------------------0---|
|-----------------------------------------------2----|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2------------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3---------------|
|E minorEm |E minorEm |E minorEm |E minorEm Bm7Bm7 |
|-------------------------------------------------2-|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------2--|
|-----------------------------------------------4---|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2h3p2-------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3--------------|
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Chorus
E minorEm A minorAm G+G etc...
|-------7-7-7---5---------------------
|-----8-------8---5-------------------
|---9---------------5-----------------
|-9-------------------7---------------
|-----------------------7-------------
|-------------------------5-5-5-7-5-3-
E minorEm A minorAm
There's a piano playing on the ocean floor
G+G C majorC Bm7Bm7
between Havana and New Orleans
E minorEm A minorAm
Drummin' a requiem for the dead
G+G C majorC Bm7Bm7
and the souls hanging on every poet's prayer
A minorAm G+G Bm7Bm7 E minorEm
Running to the rock, running to the sea
A minorAm G+G Bm7Bm7 E minorEm
Prayin' to the Lord please shelter me
A minorAm G+G Bm7Bm7 E minorEm
But the ground keeps shaking,
A minorAm G+G Bm7Bm7 E minorEm
water is boiling on fire
A minorAm G+G Bm7Bm7 E minorEm
Blood pulsing through their veins
A minorAm G+G Bm7Bm7 E minorEm
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
Clocks stopping at twelve
on the eve of a forgotten war
Luis drivin' a '59
making it half way across the Gulf
Stranded on the rock, stranded on the sea
There's a wall in the ocean between you and me
Dreams of reaching dry land,
talking to the fortune teller
Prisoners pounding the jail
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
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Bridge
(First, repeat a Power E minorEm)
x
x
x
x
2
0
Someone lost an eye,
(second guitar : e|----|)
BB|----|
G+G|----|
D MajorD|-14-|
A augmentedA|-14-|
E MajorE|----|
someone lost the truth
(second guitar : e|-15-|)
BB|-17-|
G+G|-16-|
D MajorD|----|
A augmentedA|----|
E MajorE|----|
Trying to save face,
(second guitar : e|-18-|)
BB|-17-|
G+G|-16-|
D MajorD|----|
A augmentedA|----|
E MajorE|----|
oh 'neath the eyes of the Virgin el Cobre
(then, repeat the figure)
e|-----------------|
BB|-----------------|
G+G|-----------------|
D MajorD|-14--------------|
A augmentedA|-14---14-17-14---|
E MajorE|-----------------|
Shout me a line sister, shout me a line sister
D MajorD|-14---14-----14-14\-|
A augmentedA|-14---14-----14-14\-|
E MajorE|-0----0------0--0---|
Oh I see your hands in the air, see you drowning on the other side side
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Intro Riff x2
E minorEm A minorAm
"Chief's in the parish and the drummers in the square
E minorEm A minorAm
Walkin' across the fire, walkin' across the waves"
A minorAm G+G Bm7Bm7 E minorEm
Sinner in the rock, sinner in the sea
A minorAm G+G Bm7Bm7 E minorEm
There's a sunken bridge 'tween you and me
A minorAm G+G Bm7Bm7 E minorEm
Running past the embassy gates,
A minorAm G+G Bm7Bm7 E minorEm
and the Santería shrine
A minorAm G+G Bm7Bm7 E minorEm
Blood pulsing thru their veins
A minorAm G+G Bm7Bm7
like the waves they remember
Bm7Bm7 E minorEm
Crashing on the Malecón wall
THE END!
